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Biology in the News is presented by Dr. Lamar's Biology A/B classes. Each student is responsible for posting ONE blog entry and commenting on ONE post submitted by a fellow student.

About your initial posting . . . . . (approximately 150- 300 words)

Your initial posting is worth 30 points. It must be submitted by October 15th. - Locate an electronic article about a new finding in biology. Article must be been written in the last 12 months. Your posting should include 1) the name of the article (3 point), 2) article source - be specific (3 point), 3) date of article (2 point), 4) link to article (2 points), 5) summary of article in your own words (0-10 points), and 6) significance of article (0-10 points). Comments on significance of article can include (but not be limited to) importance of article to self, to society, or to the further advancement of a particular area of biology.

NOTE: To add link, select text in post that you want to link, click on link icon above posting field, and then paste URL information into appropriate field.

About your comments to a fellow classmate's posting . . . . (approximately 100 - 200 words)

Your comments to another student's posting is worth 20 points. Comments must be submitted between October 16 and November 19 - "The more you know, the more you realize there's a lot more to know" is certainly true to science. Read our Biology in the News blob posts. Pick one post (not your own) and submit comments about this post. Comments should included 1) A question that is raised in your mind by the post. The question should have scientific relevance (0 - 5 points) 2) a response to your question. (0-15 points) Research your question and answer it. If the answer is currently unknown, provide additional background information, describe research that is being done in this field, and/or research that is required for the question to be answered.

Monday, October 18, 2010

Discovery: New Form Of Energy Production

in recent findings biomass has been proven to produce as much energy as 25 wind turbines. Turbines that contain methane, producing bacteria which degrade waste and energy crops to produce a biogas or carbon methane mix which is then converted to electricity by a process of a turbine. the article tells no further of the recent discoveries but tells on how the same Prof. Verstraete have produced nanosilver particles from silver ions by using the "good" bacteria Lactobacillus.
These same particles can be used to fight against the highly infectious norovirus and potentially used as therapy for the cold and influenza


Comments:
"Gene identified the prevents stem cells from turning Cancerous I have read the full article and agree with the findings, however that was not the discovery that was found, the discovery was finding a way to inhibit IAPs or the protein that inhibits the process of apoptosis. When they conducted a study with IAP inhibitors, the results were that the drug that inhibits the IAPs actually interfered with the natural IAP production and caused the tumors to grow even more rapidly. No sure fire way to prevent the artificial IAP production has been found

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